LABORATORIUM

 
A workshop project of contemporary music for students of the Antwerp Conservatory in collaboration with deSingel and Hogeschool/ Conservatory Antwerpen

LABORATORY is a joint project (academic year 2006-2007) of deSingel, the Antwerp Conservatory and Champ d’Action aiming at immersing the masters students throughout the school year in contemporary music, with a strong focus on the use of electronics in new music and on the work of the Slovenian composer Vinko Globokar in particular.

All year long composers together with musicians of Champ d’Action will coach the students through workshops and music moments, crowned by a final big concert in deSingel.

The purpose of this project is to give the students practical experience within an ideal and experimental framework. Champ d’Action co-ordinates the whole, engaging composers and musicians to help the work taking shape and co-operating with deSingel for logistic support.

Vinko Globokar has been chosen as the central figure in the project because he encouraged quite a lot of other composers in using new playing techniques: Luciano Berio, Karlheinz
Stockhausen and Magnus Lindberg are among the many who owe tribute to Vinko Globokar.

Furthermore Richard Barrett will be one of the key figures in this new workshop model. For Laboratorium he is writing a new composition that will be performed at the final concert.

In addition Champ d’Action is calling in other composers and musicians to assist in shaping Laboratorium: among them Serge Verstockt, Arne Deforce (cello), Fedor Teunisse (percussion), and Jaan Bossier (clarinet).

Vinko Globokar with alphorn

LABORATORY AT THE DONDERDAGEN

LABORATORY FINAL CONCERT

Role of a Performer (written by Vinko Globokar)

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